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...believed that the free-enterprise system "produces more-not only more happiness, more satisfaction and pride in our people, but also more goods, more wealth." And then he came down hard on .a point that expressed his massive faith in the ultimate victory of freedom and democracy, that "enduring form of government." He believed, he said, that "in the long run men do learn to have this same belief" in individual liberties and rights, and therefore "I believe that there is just as much of the seeds of self-destruction in the Communist system as they claim is in ours...
...become the shopping center for a population of about 50,000. Desperately hanging on to its best tourist lure, Scottsdale bills itself as "The West's Most Western Town," last week held its annual Parada del Sol rodeo. But money has turned Scottsdale into a form of effete West, a place of fabulously expensive watering spots (suites up to $120 a day) and chichi stores such as a custom perfume shop, which composes a unique aroma for each lady customer...
...modern Medici has stocked his 45-room Manhattan mansion on East 93rd Street with sculptures, now owns some 50-odd pieces that form a handsome compendium of sculpture over the past 130 years. Rose had no plans for parting with any of it until last year, when he got a letter from the mayor of Jerusalem, inquiring about his ideas for the collection and informing him that a local art show had drawn 600,000 visitors. "That spelled hunger," Billy says, "real hunger for art. Why, the total population is only around 2,000,000. It's like...
...result of 165 committee meetings. Working under the Pope's close supervision during the past year, the committee examined thousands of suggestions from parish priests, high church officials and leading laymen. The articles themselves will not be published for weeks, but enough is known about them to form a broad picture of Rome's new diocesan constitutions, which Roman Catholic bishops everywhere are urged to follow in their own dioceses-with a big reservation-"as far as local conditions permit...
...could Britain, which had abolished slavery half a century earlier, permit it to continue in this form? For one reason, the subject was "too horrible to mention" in polite Victorian society, says Author Terrot. "The very horror of the crime," wrote a London editor, "was the chief seat of its persistence." After one reform bill was "talked out" of Parliament in the spring of 1885, the Pall Mall Gazette's W. T. (for William Thomas) Stead, a brilliant crusading journalist, published a four-part study entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon that stunned the nation and appalled...